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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

—George Jean Nathan

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

—Willem de Kooning

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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

—Edward Abbey

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Mom always told me there are two kinds of love in this world: the steady breeze, and the hurricane.

—Melody Grace in Unbroken

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

—Franz Kafka

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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

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Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.

—Peter da Silva

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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

—Margaret Thatcher

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

—Carl Sagan

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We teach people how to treat us. If you don’t settle for anything less than respect, that’s what you’ll get. But if you let the douchebags walk all over you and treat you like you’re disposable, then that’s what you’ll always get.

—Kristen Proby in Play With Me

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I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

—Robert Brault

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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

—Lewis B. Smedes

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As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.

—Nelson Mandela

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Characteristically, it is when a man is at the end of his strength and endurance, but nevertheless holds on, that the transforming symbol floats into consciousness.

—P.W. Martin

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